Ruth Kaiser

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Ruth Kaiser (born February 4, 1921 in Viersen ; † November 30, 2000 there ) was a German photographer. She published numerous illustrated books on the Lower Rhine .

Gravestones Ruth Kaiser and Hanns-Josef Kaiser (Viersen Cemetery, Löh)

life and work

Ruth Kaiser (née Braun) attended the municipal lyceum in Viersen until 1937, then the Krefeld School of Applied Arts with subjects in plastic, free-hand drawing and graphics. In 1940 she began an apprenticeship as a photographer . In 1948 she took her master's degree and married the artist Hanns-Josef Kaiser (1920–2017) in 1949. They had two sons, Reinhard Kaiser , the writer, and Stefan Kaiser , the artist. The focus of Kaiser's work was architectural photography and museum photography; so she took for example for catalogs of the museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbachand the Von-der-Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . Especially in the years from 1983 onwards, landscape photography was added as a further focus and several illustrated books on the subject of the Lower Rhine were created . In addition to experimental photography, she was also active in the field of sculpture and sculpture. In 1987 Kaiser was appointed a member of the German Society for Photography . Her work in public space includes the relief at the main entrance of the Viersen hospital and the corpus of the altar cross of the St. Notburga Church , which she created together with her husband . Her city history images are now in the Viersen city archive. The museum custodian of Rheydt Castle , Christiane Zangs, wrote about Kaiser's work, “Architectural landscape, architecture in the landscape, plastic impressions, light and shadow that form these plastic impressions [...] are to be understood as a central theme in Ruth Kaiser's work "; she design them with a special understanding of composition, harmony and proposition.

Publications

Photo books

  • To Schwalm, Nette and Niers. Lower Rhine nature park in color . Text: Herbert Feilke. Horst Ziethen Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-921268-13-3
  • Krefeld. The Lower Rhine in the mirror of a big city . With texts by Helmut Cuypers. Horst Ziethen Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-921268-38-9
  • “A land of images in which we can feel at home”. Ruth and Hanns-Josef Kaiser. Forty years of work . Eckers Publishing House, Viersen 1990
  • Rheydt Castle and other places . With texts by Christiane Zangs and Carsten Sternberg. Städtisches Museum Schloß Rheydt, Mönchengladbach 1996, ISBN 3-925256-46-6
  • Magical Lower Rhine. A color picture journey through landscape and history . Text: Rose Marie Lehnhof. Ziethen-Panorama-Verlag, Bad Münstereifel 1999, ISBN 3-929932-93-8
  • Lower Rhine in color . Captions by Rose Marie Lehnhof and Wilhelm Cuypers. Ziethen-Panorama-Verlag, Bad Münstereifel 2002, ISBN 3-929932-84-9

Museum catalogs (selection)

  • Hans Hollein . Everything is architecture. An exhibition on the subject of death . Catalog box. City Museum Mönchengladbach 1970
  • Inventory catalog I. Paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 1950s . Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 1981
  • Contemporary art. 1960 to the end of the 80s . Inventory catalog. Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 1988
  • Municipal Museum of Rheydt Castle. Guide to the collections . 3 volumes. 1979, 1980, 1981
  • German graphics of classicism and romanticism . From the Heydt Museum. Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3892020094

Exhibitions

literature

  • Reinhard and Stefan Kaiser, Albert Pauly: Four times Kaiser. Ruth • Hanns-Josef • Reinhard • Stefan . Book accompanying the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen. Viersen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808779-8-5
  • Albert Pauly: Portrait, Architecture, Landscape, Museum. Photographs by Ruth Kaiser . Interview. In: Ruth and Hanns-Josef Kaiser. 40 years of work . Eckers, Viersen 1990
  • Sabine Hänisch: It even blows up for good pictures . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of February 3, 1996
  • Alexandra Ressing: Fantastic landscapes radiate harmony and calm . In: Rheinische Post from January 20, 1996
  • Christiane Zangs: Photographs by Ruth Kaiser . In: Rheydt Castle and other locations . Städtisches Museum Schloß Rheydt, Mönchengladbach 1996, ISBN 3-925256-46-6

Web links

Commons : Ruth Kaiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ What remains of Kaiser in Viersen ( Rheinische Post January 20, 2017, p. C5)
  2. ^ Christiane Zangs: Photographs by Ruth Kaiser . In: Rheydt Castle and other places . Mönchengladbach 1996
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2000
Place of death Viersen